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Dr. Linda B. Nilson
Director, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation
Clemson University
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founding director, Linda set up Clemson's Office of Teaching
Effectiveness and Innovation in 1998. She also teaches a graduate
course called College Teaching at Clemson. She is the author
of Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College
Instructors, now in its second edition (Anker Publishing,
2003) and the co-editor of Enhancing Learning Using Laptops
in the Classroom in the New Directions in Teaching and Learning
series (Jossey-Bass, forthcoming in 2005). In addition, she
has published many articles and book chapters and has presented
sessions both nationally and internationally on assessing
teaching effectiveness, designing a graphic syllabus, making
useful student-peer feedback instruments, holistic grading,
teaching large classes, and teaching with laptops, among many
other topics.
Linda entered the area of instructional and faculty development
in the late 1970s while on the sociology faculty at UCLA.
After distinguishing herself as an excellent instructor, her
department selected her to establish and supervise its TA
training program. She then went on to direct teaching centers
at Vanderbilt University and the University of California,
Riverside.
Linda was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, where she received her Ph.D. and M.S.
degrees in sociology. She completed her undergraduate work
in three years at the University of California, Berkeley,
where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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